********************************** GP-Viewer EX V1.0 ****************************
November 13, 2007
Digital Electronics Corp.
Preface
Thank you for using GP-Pro EX.
The WindowsR environment ensures operability and high performance.
Table of Contents
(1) Caution When Installing
(2) New Features
(3) GP-Viewer EX
3-1 Fixed defects
- Problems resolved in V1.00.100
1. In the Sampling Settings, Mode tab, if you use the Data Full Bit
Address or the Block Completed Bit Address, each bit turns on twice
in a row as the condition is satisfied.
2. Even if screen synchronization is set up, when you use Group with
Auto OFF in the Bit Switch group function, upon exiting GP-Viewer EX
the Auto Off operation is run.
3. When the CPU utilization 100% status is sustained, the application may become
the no-response condition or an application error may occur.
4. When a data read/write is made at high speeds by the operations below,
the CPU utilization goes up and the problem of the item 3 occurs.
- In Word Switch, select "Add Data", "Subtract Data" etc. and
check "Continuous Add Feature".
When you keep clicking the switch on the screen, the CPU utilization goes up.
- With "Read Data From Each Alarm" enabled, change the triggered devices
at the same time to read a large number of devices at a time.
3-2 Limitations
- Portrait display is not supported. (Do not rotate the display unit.)
- Double-byte characters for screen titles may not display correctly
in the Change Panel switch dialog box.
- Recovery errors do not erase. They erase only when changing screens.
- In Numeric and Text Displays, when the Address Type is set to "
Device Type/Address", and you use a device/PLC in the Monitor Word
Address, an error occurs.
- In Numeric and Text Displays, setting "Device" or "Device Type/
Address" for the Address Type, right after establishing connection,
the display may be different from the server.
- While connected, Alarm Trigger and Recovery times use the time on
the Viewer (PC), which could result in time discrepancies between
the viewer and server.
Touching the update screen button gets all alarm data, thereby
correcting the time to match the server time.
- When Screen Mode is Asynchronous, and on the Viewer you set
"Display", "Clear", or "Clear and Display" for the Block Display
Graph's control word, that operation will be repeated.
To prevent this, set the screen to synchronous mode and change the
server screen to the Block Display Graph screen.
For Block Display Graph operations from the Viewer, do not write to
the control word. Instead, on the Viewer, from the Update menu,
point to Block Display Graph and select "Display", "Clear", or
"Clear and Display".
- Forced screen change is not supported.
Even if forced screen change is enabled, changing screens by touch
from the Viewer is available.
- If Global Window is set to "Indirect" and the data format is set to
"BCD", the following restrictions apply.
When Screen Mode is Asynchronous, moving the Global Window using
Add or Subtract buttons to change X or Y coordinates did not
operate properly.
- At high communication speeds, changing multiple bits ON and OFF may
not be recognized by the Viewer.
The Viewer also may not recognize screen changes at high
communication speeds.
As a result the Viewer may display different data from the server
or reproduces a sound but it recovers on a screen change.
- Follow the steps below to set security to zero.
Do not enter a User ID or Password and touch [OK] to set the
security level to "0".
(When security is set up for read Viewer data operations, you
cannot use this option.)
- You cannot write to the Special Relay Area (LS2071-LS2074,
LS2078-LS2095) from the Viewer.
- You cannot open, or save as, a settings file that is already open.
- Even when the screen mode is asynchronous, if the viewer and server
display the same screen, trigger or D-scripts could change the
server screen.
(When this happens, the viewer does not recognize a screen change
has occurred on the server because it is asynchronous.)
Before disconnecting the Viewer, check the server screen by
touching "Change to server screen".
- When using a long path for the settings file storage location,
because of operating system path length restrictions, the GP may
fail to get data from external storage.
Use short paths for the Settings file.
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